LTT Risk Assurance - Programme Assurance Senior Manager

About the teamStaff in the Risk Assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) take pride in helping clients to identify, measure and manage their risks more effectively. Our Risk Assurance specialists offer knowledge and expertise in areas including IT systems and programmes, business systems and governance, business resilience, commercial assurance, cyber security, data assurance, performance assurance, treasury and external and internal audit. Although your role will be focused on IT systems and programmes, you can expect to be work alongside specialists from other areas.

London Top-Tier’s (LTT) business unit provides Risk Assurance services to a wide range of Top-Tier clients from both the public and private sectors including Central Government, Local Government, Health, Education, Retail & Consumer, Industrial Products, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences, Energy & Mining, Communications and Entertainment & Media. You can expect to be working in any of these sectors. However, you will be expected to have or develop sector expertise.At PwC we provide Programme Assurance to our clients to help them reduce the risk of project failure and increase the value delivered by projects. Delivering business critical transformation and IT programmes is becoming more complex and challenging. The requirement for good programme assurance is stronger than ever before.About the role

Raising the team’s profile externally by expanding the network, including with external bodies.

Developing collateral required to support marketing activities such as propositions and targeted proposals for clients.

You will be expected to deliver existing business:

Managing the delivery of relevant engagements, working to meet client expectations and commitments.

Managing the work pipeline and resource requirements of the team.

Enduring clients are billed correctly and payments are being made on time.

Ensuring risk and quality expectations are met or exceeded.

Managing junior members of the team on assignments.

You will be expected to develop our programme assurance capabilities:

Taking an active role in coaching and developing skills in the team and in other solutions sets.

Working to increase awareness of programme assurance across London Top Tier.

Additional informationOpportunity for working from home? (Yes/No) OccasionallyAmount of time client based (%) 50-80%Opportunity for job sharing? (Yes/No) NoNeed to travel/overnight stays away from home (Yes/No/%) yes, 10-20%Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? (Yes/No) NoAmount of time PwC office based (%) 20-50%Essential skills, qualifications and experience:

Assurance is a dynamic place to be right now, and the variety of opportunities on offer is unprecedented. It’s work that really does matter. It matters for businesses, governments and society at large. Our team provides confidence on the most complex decisions companies have to take and this provides a wealth of opportunities to everyone who joins us and works with us.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.